To Move

Tarantism is the word to describe the uncontrollable urge to dance – originally thought to be the result of a tarantula bite. Like dark clouds making their way through the sky, shadows skimming over the world below, sometimes inspiration comes thundering across the fields, through the towns, right into your heart. No spiders necessary.

Created and performed by Rebecca Björling and Rebecca Rosier for We:R Performance CollectiveShot and edited by Tim DavisMusic Emerald Rush (edit) by Jon Hopkins

Thanks to Remake Stockholm and Stockholms Stadsmission for providing our costumes from their collection of handmade recycled garments.

We were delighted when Hannah Krebs came to us for an internship during January 2018. Together we created a new, badass Juliet. This is the documentation of the research work we did together during our time together. We're so grateful for Hannah's energy, commitment and honesty.

KIRAN

Kiran, an excerpt from Love
Too Much, a stage work currently under construction, based on true stories of
female experience, as told through interviews with people around the world.
This particular piece is centered around an interview with Kiran Gandhi - a
touring musician, Harvard graduate and feminist activist. The interview focuses
around her memorable marathon run, in which she bled freely during her period,
both for her own comfort, and as an act of protest against menstrual stigma.

- The piece was performed by Rebecca Rosier at DC-Intro 2017 at Danscentrum Stockholm.

Schubert vs The Muse

Artists each have their own special relationship to their muse - the magic, mysterious, unpredictable force that inspires them to create their work. And while each relationship is unique, all artists go through similar processes with their muse: at the start, a beautiful dream or idea, something vague and interesting - ‘inspiration’ perhaps. Then follows the hard work; which can be draining and frustrating or exciting and challenging. Artists sometimes quit here, but if they continue, they eventually reach completion - a measured, well-rehearsed calmness where everything seems to fall into place. This short film is intended to represent that process. Whether you are creating or learning or rehearsing, you are not alone in this process, and it’s never wasted effort. Trust the process, and most importantly: enjoy the process, because the truth of any work is not the end product but the work that it took to create it.

The project is a collaboration between Bim and We:R Performance Collective. The choreography was created and intensively rehearsed in five days at Tegelscenen in Stockholm, and filmed at Danscentrum, Stockholm.

Ode to my Bitchface (dance)

"Resting Bitchface, they call you. But there is nothing 'restful' about you..."

'Ode to my Bitchface' is a dance film made in reaction to the amazing fierceness of Olivia Gatwood's poem of the same name. Beautifully delivered by Olivia in a live performance, we felt like we had to dance the chills out of our bodies as soon as we saw her original video.

Dancing Shakespeare: Macbeth Act I, Sc. 5

Music: 'The Book of Kells' by Bruno Coulais Location: Dansmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden.

"The raven himself is hoarseThat croaks the fatal entrance of DuncanUnder my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty! make thick my blood;Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,Wherever in your sightless substancesYou wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry 'Hold, hold!' "